Sightings Archive

Sunday 25th April 2021

• Grange Park Golf Course: Stock Dove - 1 - singing from Brick Kiln Pltn ; Woodpigeon - 10+ - at least 3 singing ; Skylark - 3+ ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - feeding @ practice range ; Wren - 4+ - singing ; Dunnock - 1+ ; Robin - 4+ - singing, pair feeding E edge of Watson's Tip ; Blackbird - 1+ - singing ; Song Thrush - 4+ - at least 4 singing and 1 carrying food onto Driving Range SK391941 ; Whitethroat - 2 ; Blackcap - 6 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1+ ; Willow Warbler - 2 - singing ; Blue Tit - 1+ - inc 1 displaying near hole in Sycamore branch @ Walkworth Wood ; Chaffinch - 1+ - singing ; Bullfinch - 1 - calling @ Brick Kiln extension ; Magpie - 6+
• Grasscroft Wood: Swallow - 1 - Over fields near Wood ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Skylark - 2 - Fields above Wood.
• Hollingdale: Red Kite - 1 - high over around midday
• Middleton Moor: Ringed Plover - 1 ; Wheatear - 1 ; Swallow - 1
• Moscar Moor: Ring Ouzel - 4 ; Red Kite - 1 ; Wheatear - 2
• Moss Valley: Cuckoo - 1 - Flew over Carterhall Farm ; Whitethroat - 1 - at Lightwood Farm
• Nether Haugh: Whitethroat - 2 - 1 giving hesitant song from hedgerow, Back Lane ; Linnet - 3 - over
• Nether Haugh; Daniel Lane: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Swallow - 2 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Linnet - 1 - singing ; Pheasant - 5 - 4m; 1f in a garden
• New Stubbin colliery/tip: Willow Warbler - 9 - 1 SK4396; 8 SK4296, all singing ; Chiffchaff - 4 - 2 SK4396; 2 SK4296, all singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Herring Gull - 6 - SE together ; Song Thrush - 2 - 1 singing ; Yellowhammer - 2 ; Common Buzzard - 1 - confiding individual, disturbed from ground
• New Whittington: 319 - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 50+ ; Skylark - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Lapwing - 1 - In horse paddock just outside New Whittington
• Orgreave Lakes: Greenshank - 1 - on small lake at 0735 ; Reed Warbler - 1 - in phragmites on big lake. ; Yellow Wagtail - 2 ; Wheatear - 1 ; Redshank - 5 ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; Sand Martin - 24 - feeding over main lake ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - ad carrying food back to river ; Yellow Wagtail - 6 ; Whitethroat - 2 - singing
• Pit-house West: Reed Warbler - 1 - singing
• Ramshaw Wood nr Unstone Green: Chiffchaff - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Goldfinch - 3 - Fields nr Wood
• Rawmarsh Cemetery: Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1 ; Pheasant - 2 - cocks, one almost taken by domestic cat!
• Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 4 - 1 SK4395; 3 SK4396, all singing ; Blackcap - 4 - 1 SK4395; 3 SK4396, all singing
• Redmires: Red Kite - 1 - Gliding over the reservoirs then drifted off over Redmires Plantation, northish.
• Rivelin Valley: Pied Wagtail - 2 - Flash Lane ; Lapwing - 2 ; Curlew - 3 ; Skylark - 1
• Stubbing Wood, nr Hundall: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 2
• Thrybergh CP: Mallard - 30+ - First chicks brood of 12 ; Moorhen - 13 - First brood 8 ; Great Crested Grebe - 8 ; Mute Swan - 66 ; Blackcap - 10 ; Chiffchaff - 6 ; Reed Warbler - 1 ; Sedge Warbler - 1 ; Whitethroat - 4 ; Yellow Wagtail - 3 ; Swallow - 10 ; Sand Martin - C30 ; House Martin - 5 ; Swift - 2 - First of year ; Sparrowhawk - 1m ; Reed Bunting - 4
• Totley: 319 - 1 ; Swallow - 1